Loudoun Requests More Volunteers For Medical Reserve Corps

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — The Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps is issuing a call for medical and nonmedical volunteers to help protect the community during the coronavirus crisis.

Medical professionals of all types are needed, including doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, emergency medical technicians, dentists and veterinarians, the county said. Nonmedical volunteers are used in a number of ways, including as translators, logistics support, staffing the information line and performing clinic roles.

“Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps volunteers have been working every day, seven days a week for the last five months," Loudoun County Health Director Dr. David Goodfriend said Monday in a statement. "With society reopening and many of these folks now going back to work, the more people who can volunteer, whether they’re medical or nonmedical, the better."

Officials estimate that since the crisis began, Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps personnel have volunteered more than 7,400 hours, saving the county about $200,000.

This fall, the volunteers also are expected to play a key role with flu vaccination campaigns. "And when the time comes, hopefully, for coronavirus vaccination campaigns, we would look to the MRC for help,” Goodfriend said.

An online registration form for the Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps can be found at loudoun.gov/mrc.